Scuba Sextant

[highdesert]

Buy Aqua Bearing Buddy Navigation Aid Slate (SL07) from Leisure Pro

 

[Venskj]

The Aqua Bearing Buddy is a step in the right direction, but it still seems to require you to swim specific headings (i.e. 45 degrees). The thing I'm looking for I think may have even come from PADI. The last time my LDS checked their catalog, it was no longer in it. Bummer.

I'll keep watching eBay I guess.

 

[rhwestfall]

post a request in the classifieds. maybe someone has one they will part with.

 

[Hawkwood]

... The thing I'm looking for I think may have even come from PADI. The last time my LDS checked their catalog, it was no longer in it. Bummer.

I'll keep watching eBay I guess.

You are looking for a "Nav-Finder"



A quick eBay search finds a "new in package" one at Dixie Divers in Florida.

 

[Venskj]

GREAT IDEA! I still stumble around SB. I didn't think of the classifieds. Thanks.

---------- Post added April 2nd, 2013 at 03:29 PM ----------

Exactly. Thanks.

 

[Gatortag]

GREAT IDEA! I still stumble around SB. I didn't think of the classifieds. Thanks.

---------- Post added April 2nd, 2013 at 03:29 PM ----------

Exactly. Thanks.

I'm surprised many don't know about this. It is a fantastic tool to map a dive site and supplements and relies upon a good compass (it's not a substitute for it). All you need to do is keep track of your heading and distance (time, kick cycles, whatever) and as you pass certain features you just note it (I write on the back and number the description and location along the particular leg that I am on). Once you are back on shore, you can map out the legs and add the features you noted at the appropriate places. The fact that you can follow any path you want as long as you keep track of the various paths/legs and allows you to go where ever you see something of interest rather than have to follow a pre-determined course/legs. You can also do as many different legs and you don't need to have sophisticated tools to get back to where you started - all you need to do is "close the polygon" you created and voila, you are back at the start. Once you close it, everything you saw and noted on your path is now accurately placed relative to each other and you can create a very accurate map as a result.

One note. The better one is the Scuba Sextant, not the Padi Navfinder, because the larger the area to record your travels the more accurate the results. The Navfinder has a lot of extra, unnecessary stuff and the graph area is that much smaller.

Have fun with it.

 

[oldschoolto]

And here I was thinking you're looking to get a sextant & star charts for night diving....

Jim.....

 

[covediver]

looks like my old E6B navigation computer from my private pilot ground school. What a great idea. Had no idea that these things existed for diving. could be fun and educational. thanks for posting

 

[Rich Keller]

Technology nerds would think that this concept could be updated with solid-state gyroscopes for inertial navigation.

Real technology nerds would think this concept could be improved with an infer red line scanner.

 

[Tigerman]

Meh.. GPS for the win...